Historical Events In May - 07

1960  On May - 07 "Christine" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances   

1960  "Flower Drum Song" closes at St James Theater NYC after 602 performances on this day in history.   

1960  Leonid Brezhnev becomes the President of the USSR on this day in history.   

1960  On May - 07 leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as President of USSR   

1960  On this day in history michael Tal beats Botvinnik 12½-8½ for world chess championship   

1960  USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy on May - 07.   

1962  On this day in history pulitzer prize awarded to Theodore H White (Making of President 1960)   

1962  US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island on this day in history.   

1962  Jimmy Conlin, dies at 77 on this day in history.   

1963  On this day in history bruno Sammartino becomes WWF champion   

1963  On May - 07 sETC Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles (10,800 km))   

1966  On May - 07 mamas & Papas "Monday Monday" hits #1   

1967  On May - 07 judith Evelyn, dies of cancer at 54   

1968  Lurleen Burns, wife of George Wallace/gov of Alabama, dies at 41 on May - 07.   

1969  On May - 07 lieutenant General Robert E Cushman, Jr, USMC, becomes deputy director of CIA   

1970  "Long & Winding Road" becomes Beatles' last American release on May - 07.   

1970  Carlos Estrada, composer, dies at 60 on May - 07.   

1971  On May - 07 willem Banning, Dutch theologist/sociologist (Karl Marx), dies at 83   

1973  Pulitzer prize awarded to Eudora Welty (Optimist's Daughter) on this day in history.   

1973  US President Nixon denies all knowledge of the Watergate affair on this day in history.   

1974  Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Lowell (Dolphin) on this day in history.   

1975  President Ford declares an end to "Vietnam Era" on May - 07.   

1975  Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 53 launched to study X-rays on May - 07.   

1977  Irwin Fischer, composer, dies at 73 on this day in history.   

1980  On this day in history josip Tito, Yugoslav President, buried   

1980  Samm-Art Williams' "Home" premieres in NYC on this day in history.   

1981  Mieczyslaw Kolinski, composer, dies at 79 on this day in history.   

1982  IBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1 on this day in history.   

1982  US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site on this day in history.   

1982  Alfred Adam, dies at 72 on May - 07.   

1983  On this day in history august Hoffman performs record 29,051 consecutive sit-ups   

1983  Peter Edel, writer, dies on May - 07.   

1984  On this day in history $180 million out-of-court settlement reached in Agent Orange suit   

1984  On May - 07 in Southern Italy a 5.8 earthquake killed three people and at least 100 injured, and extensive damage in the Abruzzo area   

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1328  Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1365) was born on May - 07.   

1530  Louis I Condé, French prince/leader of hugenots was born on May - 07.   

1574  On this day in history birth of innocent X, [Giambattista Pamfili], 236th pope (1644-55)   

1643  On May - 07 birth of stephanus Van Cortlandt, American politician (d. 1700)   

1700  On May - 07 birth of gerard van Swieten, Dutch botanist   

1704  On this day in history birth of carl Heinrich Graun, composer   

1724  On this day in history birth of dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Austrian general (d. 1797)   

1740  On May - 07 birth of nikolai Arkharov, Russian general (d. 1814)   

0685  On this day in history marwan I ibn al-Hakam, 4th kalief of Omajjaden (684-85), dies   

0973  On this day in history otto I the Great, Holy Roman Emperor (962-973), dies at 60   

1092  On this day in history death of remigius de Fécamp, first bishop of Lincoln (b. unknown)   

1166  Death of Willem I, the Bad, king of Sicily (1154-66) on May - 07.   

1205  Ladislaus III Arpad, King of Hungary (1204-05), dies at 5 or 6 on this day in history.   

1427  Death of Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr, English churchman on this day in history.   

1523  On this day in history franz von Sickingen, Germ knight/protect of poor, dies of wounds at 42   

1539  Death of Guru Nanak Dev, Founder of Sikhism (b. 1469) on May - 07.